Topic: corticostriatal loop

Two striatal subregions, the Dorsolateral Striatum (DLS) and the Dorsomedial Striatum (DMS) are thought to implement habitual and flexible, goal-directed behavior respectively. The DMS has been shown to be involved in tasks such as gating of information into working memory and accumulating evidence before making a decision. How the DMS produces these behaviors is less understood than the DLS because, unlike habitual motor tasks used to study the DLS, tasks used to study the DMS require more management of internal mental states, an inherently unobservable process. In this work, we build a compu